Posts by ZapB

Pumped-up radio telescope seeks new moniker

Taking Inspiration form Red Dwarf

Cornucopia of

Large

Interfering

Telescopes for

Observing

Radiative

Incidents in

Space

[Paris because she would want to play with it.]

Will the looters 'loose' their benefits?

Scalable?

Perhaps the government need a more scalable web-hosting solution. 95k POST requests is not really a large number to process. Or maybe the politicians didn't want to come back from holiday so they sent in the colour-blind work experience lad to do some Ethernet cable re-routing...

Nokia snubs UK with N9

Blithering idiots

Bah! The N950 developer version of the N9 is *really* nice to code for. Obviously Nokia management do not want customers. Soon I fear their dreams will come true.

How do you copy 60m files?

Easy

screen -R big-copy

rsync -avzPe ssh user1@box1:/src-path user2@box2:/dst-path

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Go for a beer or 500 ;-)